Immich, I believe, is linked to Futo. And Futo has a license model that’s basically “if you like this app, and want to support the development, consider buying a license.”

Sounds like it might be similar with Immich.

Better than “donate to this project”, since a license seems more like the user is getting something out of it, even if it’s basically a glorified donation 😂

The satisfaction in doing that would have been more than enough to justify the work! LOL

At what point would the effort and expense be “too much”? LOL These parts are normally available for under $10 for the seal, bearing, clips, and metal post.

On the other hand, we have a shower faucet knob where this internal piece would always crack. We replaced that part many times with the official component, but I ended up 3d printing it, and it hasn’t broken once in at least the last 6 years!

We’ve had excellent results with ours. Admittedly, I also add a lot of homemade “trail mix” to our recipes, so they are more than plain bread loafs! But we also use it to make pizza dough at least once a week.

The fact that companies don’t even care bothers me more than not being able to fix these items myself! 😱

As much as I love baking and making bread by hand, we use the bread maker (two, actually) so often that the convenience factor alone saves us many, many hours a week and has a much lower energy cost compared to our oven.

To be honest, I’ve 3d printed parts for other things before, but I don’t think it would work here. Great idea, though!

This is a high-heat part that needs to be some kind of silicone/rubber. The seal itself is shaped (not just a round washer), but there are other metal parts that appear to have broken/deteriorated. I don’t actually think my seals are broken, but the “seal kits” you usually find have all the parts I’d want to replace.

LOL. We have a robot vacuum that self-empties into a larger bag, and we do empty that one many times over 😂

Don’t even get me started with vacuums! We have a Shark vacuum that was gifted to us. It works great, and I have no complaints… except for this one thing:

The hose had split one day, and having looked at a few videos on how to fix this common problem, I got to work.

Shark, with their engineers, made it so that the hose has a wire running through it, making it impossible to fix this very simple problem.

I call up their service, because the machine was still under warranty. They wanted me to VIDEO CALL showing the issue with the hose, then claimed that the hose was a consumable item and not covered under warranty! Like, WTF?? I argued with them, and they finally agreed to replace the hose with shipping at my expense.

Infuriating.

I do remember older vacuums being way more serviceable. My only real complaint about older vacs is that they tend to use disposable bags, which I hate (another consumable!). But when it comes time to replace this, I will be shopping around for the most repairable models.

Yeah, I’ve been far more conscious of whether the stuff I buy can be easily repaired or not, and it often makes or breaks my purchase decision.

I wish consumers had more resources into what parts might break on which product, so they can actively make better purchasing decisions.

Had I known this part could be treated like a consumable, I may have spent more on a better model that supports easier repairs.

Which reminds me, my expensive blender has a jar with a built-in blade. Eventually, the blade will need to be replaced (actually, it’s the bearings), but since you can’t disassemble it, you have to purchase an entirely new jar with the blade! So, I sourced out compatible jars that have removable blades that can be more easily serviced!

This is actually part of planned obsolescence, where it is difficult and costly to repair things even when parts are available by constant minor cosmetic tweaks dueing production.

For sure! We need stronger laws that prevent this. Lump it into some environmental protection mandate, and expedite it!

I installed bluefin on my wife’s laptop, and on a spare laptop, just yesterday 🤭 It really is great.

I think I’ll be putting it on my desktop PC and keep Aurora on my daily driver Laptop.

Either way, we’re all winning 😂

Windows is free for anyone to use indefinitely… If you’re OK with a persistent watermark.

Why even add a premium to the laptop? Let the user decide to use windows as-is, pay a license, or switch to Linux. 🤭

It’s still indexing, but seems to be working as I expect. I really only want it for the contextual search, but it’s nice to know that I can do more with it if/when I move away from the Synology ecosystem. 🫣

Figured it out :) It’s indexing my media now!

And to add to that, even with vanilla Gnome, you have the option to do what you like via extensions. If you want it to look like a Mac or Windows UI, you can!

My wife doesn’t care, as long as it works. If I can set up favorites/shortcuts to the stuff she needs access to, she’s golden.

I don’t think Photoprism has contextual search. Anyway, immich installed and running on my NAS 🤭

I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?

It’s like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.

Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.

Also, it’s 1am and I’m in the middle of fiddling with a self-hosted docker image of Immich on my Synology NAS… so much for living by my own rules 😂

Are you going to talk down to me because I’m not using Arch? LOL 😆

At my age, I just want something that works. Long gone are the days when I enjoyed staying up through the night to fix shit on my computer. 🤭